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The Digital Silk Road: understanding Chinas technological rise and the implications for global governance
Abstract
The Digital Silk Road (DSR) is the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that aims to establish China as the global technological superpower. This chapter creates a conceptual roadmap of the DSR, which is comprised of four interrelated, technologically focused initiatives, including investment in digital infrastructure, domestic development of advanced technologies that will be essential to global economic and military power, promotion of e-commerce through digital free trade zones, and engagement in digital diplomacy and governance. Smart cities, which connect these initiatives, serve as nodes along the DSR. The chapter analyzes how the DSR will impact global governance, with a focus on the strategic technological competition between the United States and China that will shape the future international order. While the international community should welcome China’s efforts to enhance digital connectivity, there are significant risks that China will use the DSR to export its form of digital authoritarianism.
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“In 2015 Beijing launched the Digital Silk Road, which was designed to augment its national digital champions and support their efforts to expand abroad (Cheney 2021).”
From The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks (2024) · cites this paper as Cheney 2021
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Schindler, S., Alami, I., DiCarlo, J., Jepson, N., Rolf, S., Bayırbağ, M. K., Cyuzuzo, L., DeBoom, M., Farahani, A. F., Liu, I. T., et al. (2024) · Geopolitics · doi:10.1080/14650045.2023.2253432 · Cited by 252
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- Authors
- T. Cheney, C.
- Venue
- Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Published
- 2021-10-22
- OpenAlex
- W3209967088
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3
- FWCI
- 6.82
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Belt and Road Initiative
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Political and Economic Relations
- Keywords
- Digital Silk Road, Belt and Road Initiative, digital infrastructure, e-commerce, digital diplomacy, smart cities, technology competition, US-China rivalry, global governance, digital authoritarianism, international order
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